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Ashore, the Einsteins at once went to their customary living quarters in Caltech's Athenaeum at Pasadena. That night he stayed up late chatting abstrusely. Two days later, in a comfortable chair in the Mount Wilson Observatory library, he listened intently to a bright young man of relativity propound a retrovision of the universe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Visiting Eminence | 1/23/1933 | See Source »

Prior to the award, Dr. Shapley will propound one of his most advanced theories in a lecture to be delivered tonight on the subject: "The Expanding Universe." Other recent honors awarded Dr. Shapley include the American Society of Arts and Sciences' medal for outstanding scientific achievement...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SHAPLEY RECEIVES DEGREE FROM OGLETHORPE, SUNDAY | 5/23/1931 | See Source »

...alive can propound a pious witticism more deftly than the present Pope Pius...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PAPAL STATE: White Flywheel | 2/16/1931 | See Source »

Scientists agree that locusts do not start to migrate because they are hungry. Indeed each locust eats comparatively little on the migratory flight, consumes much of its own fat, arrives lean but wrought up to the highest amorous pitch. Authorities now propound the theory that the locust migrations are a sexual manifestation, as though Mother Nature employed this spur to spread her grasshopping children as far and wide as possible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EGYPT: Plague of Locusts | 5/26/1930 | See Source »

After E. M. Rowe '27 had spoken in rebuttal for the Debating Council's plan, the presiding chairman, R. T. Bushnell. District Attorney of Middlesex County, put the question into discussion from the floor. For over an hour, undergraduates continued to ask questions, propound theories, offer statistics, in an attempt to settle the problem that is baffling the wisest politicians, sociologists, and political theorists...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Throng of 500 Present at Mass Meeting on Prohibition in Union | 3/6/1930 | See Source »

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